After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6277
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the lack of written guidance given to FBI agents about standing clear of coercive interrogation techniques that are outside of FBI policy.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6276
The document is an internal FBI email with attachments that include a description of interrogation technique concerns raised to Commanding General Miller as well as an outline of approved coercive techniques used by the military.
June 15, 2011
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Mohammed al Qahtani
Dec. 02, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6275
The document is a memorandum, regarding the re-visitation of FBI interrogation strategies employed against Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. The memorandum includes information on the differences between interrogation ...
May 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6274
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the treatment of prisoners and detainees and includes further clarifications from the Office of General Counsel on the subject. The memorandum reiterates that FBI guidelines do not allow for ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Gary M. Bald
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6273
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. The document includes concerns from FBI agents about participating in harsh Department ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, John S. Pistole
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6272
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Oct. 08, 2004 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6271
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding FBI involvement in overseas aggressive interrogations and collaborating with the military to form some categories and advice.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald
Jan. 06, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6270
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a follow up on the Guantanamo Bay timeline project.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6269
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
Nov. 17, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6268
The document is a memorandum sent to Valerie Caproni that includes several attachments related to extraterritorial Miranda rights warnings.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni